Category Archives: General

Good article on the Linux desktop.

The Register reports a worrying attack on PIN numbers, although “the risk of attack comes from a corrupt insider, perhaps in computer operations and with access to sensitive manuals, who might be able to use the attack to refine what would otherwise be a brute force attempt to guess PIN numbers.” And with a maximum of 3 or 4 attempts at an ATM nobody’s going to do this on the street. Probably.

This script looks like it’d be very handy for those of us who have to accept mail from Outlook users.

ytnef is a program to work with procmail to decode TNEF streams (winmail.dat attachments) like those created with Outlook. Unlike other similar programs, it can also create vCalendar/vCard entries from meeting requests, address cards, and task entries.

Re: Last Admin Test. via ILUG.

1] Name two ways to disable a users account.

Disable the user, or merely threaten them with violence if they touch a machine.

Coolest bow tie in the universe – via slashdot.org

New major release of SpamAssassin is out. Version 2.50 has lots of updates and bug fixes. Jeremy has more on his site!

Mozilla upstart looks up to Safari.

A small band of software developers tired of code and feature bloat are building yet another browser based on Mozilla.

A new development project called Epiphany has splintered from the Galeon effort, which also was formed to create a simplified Mozilla-based browser for Gnome.

Good evening! This is a blog generated by the the excellent b2, heavily modified by me to use Smarty, and with scripts to make it easy to create new blogs. I’ll hopefully be able to release code sometime next week when I track down any errant bugs.

:: phpPatterns() – Guidelines for Designing Classes in PHP – on my reading list for later, but it’s a pity the author uses such a wide graphic in the article as it means I have to scroll horizontally.. grrr.